Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 30
Then Gerda called still louder, and there came a very old woman out of the house, leaning on a crutch.
Who acts: Gerda, old woman · What happens: call, come, lean · To what, where: crutch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerda, old woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 louder | advmod |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 came | expl |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaning | punct |
| 19 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 crutch | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 crutch | det |
| 22 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaning | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Gerda | then | loud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | a old woman out the house | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lean | gerund | a old woman out the house not said here | a crutch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on crutch=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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